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Rare Carbon-Copy Work on German Offensive in the Baltic Islands, 1917

Translation by Col. H.H. Hossfeld of Lt. General von Tschischwitz, Armee und Marine bei der Eroberung der Baltischen Inseln im Oktober 1917: Erfahrungen und Betrachtungen as The Army and Navy During the Conquest of the Baltic Islands in October, 1917.

Washington Army War College, 1933. 246x200mm, 187pp, with a small packet of 20 photographically reproduced maps in a pocket in the rear of the book.

This is a carbon typescript of the translation of the work translated by Hossfeld, and is marked on the cover "3 copies, Copy No. 2". According to NUC/WorldCat the other two copies of this work are located in the libraries at the U.S. Army Military Institute (MHR) and Library of the Marine Corps (QMC) . Before being transferred from the collections at the Library of Congress this copy was in the library at the U.S. Naval War College (so stamped on verso of the title page) before being discarded. Very good condition. $450